Tail paradox, partial identifiability, and influential priors in bayesian branch length inference

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 325-335

  Rannala, Bruce ^a,b   Zhu, Tianqi ^c,d   Yang, Ziheng ^a,e,f  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^e SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian phylogenetics; Branch lengths; Compound dirichlet distribution; Identifiability; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Tail paradox

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, RRNA; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

EID: 84859893546     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msr210     Document Type: Article

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